Israel Arrests 50 Arabs Suspected of El Fatah Ties, Jerusalem Notables (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) zation whose members were might stop aid to the refugees trained and equipped by Syria who did not go back "to help his for raids into Israel until the ; brothers to continue their political ties issued detention orders Tues- June war halted the terrorist !action and remain a thorn in the day night against two more Arab incursions. flesh of the aggressor until the notables in East Jerusalem as Indicating that more Fatah ar- crisis had been solved." Israeli security units pushed a rests were likely, Israeli officials International Red Cross officials search for members of the El !said that Fatah members in the left Wednesday for Jordan carrying Fatah terrorist group following the West Bank had a meeting with questionnaires for returnees which arrest of 50 persons suspected of .,Jordanian and Syrian intelligence Israel requires as part of its se- El Fatah connections. officials on plans to resume ter- curity clearance program to screen Hafez Tahboub, 49, an attorney. rorist activities in the West Bank out potential saboteurs and gueril- and Moussa el Bitar, director of area. - las. The questionnaires bear the an Arab insurance company and The strike by virtually all Arab- stamp of Israel, Jordan and the In- one-time candidate for the Jordan- owned enterprises in old Jerusa- ternational Red Cross in accord- ian parliament, were charged with lem. the first major challenge to ance with a formula worked out initiating and inciting in connec- Israel's authority, ended Tuesday , to satisfy Jordanion officials who tion with the one-day general as shops reopened and buses and rejected the initial questionnaire strike of Arab merchants in Old taxis resumed operation. The strike form because it contained only the Jerusalem Monday. They were began Monday morning. imprint of the state of Israel. taken to Ramie Prison to serve a One youth was arrested Monday The officials said that Israel's three-month detention ordered by night for threatening an Arab agreed willingness to permit the the Israeli military administra- bread peddler who refused to stop refugees to return to the Israel- tion. The detention orders were his selling. i held West Bank will cause Jordan- issued by the West Bank command. Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jer- ian authorities to press for the re- er acting under emergency regu- , usalem, said that while the shut- turn of a maximum number of lations issued by the British Man- ting down of a shop presented refugees, particularly a large num- datory Regime in 1945 and still in no serious problem, halting of ber living on United Nations aid. effect in Israel. Four Arab nota- bus and taxi transportation was The officials said the returnees bles were banished on July 31 to another matter, have always been an unruly ele- towns in northern Israel on earlier ment nt for the King Hussein regime. The Israeli press was unanimous incitement charges Sending them back to Israel in condemning the shutdown but itwas reported that more ar- is a particularly useful solution flaaretz, the independent daily, rests of Arab leaders were likely and the Jerusalem Post noted that for the Hussein regime, the of- and that some of the Arabs who will rid strikes and demonstrations had ficials said. The regime helped incite the Monday shut- itself of a disruptive element been going on steadily during the down came to Jerusalem from 19 years that Jordan controlled while imposing that element on Jordan. A number of Arab shops the 01(1 City and suggested that Israel, they said. which were closed in the strike The officials discounted the harsness might not necessarily by and an Arab bus firm -which statement by Jordanian officials the proper approach initially. halted service to nearby villages, Police also reported that leaf- that the refugees were being sent had their licenses revoked. lets calling for the strike had been hack to be "a thorn in the side of distributed by about one dozen the aggressor." declaring that the The security units seized a large number of Fatah terrorists and dis- Arab youths. They said also that Jordan regime must somehow jus- tify its haste in pushing them out covered an arms cache in an Arab they were looking for evidence refugee camp near .Jericho. Ac- linking the shutdown with orders of Jordan. Seven thousand Arabs have been cording to an official statement from Jordan. The Jordanian radio issued Tuesday night by Israeli gave extensive and well-informed given permanent employment in officials, the terrorists. who caused coverage to the strike. One corn- the West Bank area, it was re- ported by Israel's military govern- widespread property destruction plaint in the leaflets was the im- and loss of life in Israel border , position of income taxes by Is- meet in that region. Of the total, settlements with sneak raids, were raeli authorities on East Jerusalem 4,000 are teachers. The others are employed in various government revealed to have been preparing residents and purchase tax on agencies as day laborers. a resumption of such actions, in- stocks of Arab merchants. There chiding planting of mines and ex- The wage scales for employes were no demonstrations during plosives and inciting the Arab hired on a monthly basis have the strike. population against Israel. been fixed at the same rates paid The action as called for by Radio by the Jordanian government. The El Fatah roundup began Amman, was linked to the fact five days ago when an Israeli that Nils-Govan Cussing, the per- However, to ensure a decent stan- of living, the minimum security agent recognized an El sonal United Nations representa- dard salaries have been raised from Fatah member from a photograph tive for humanitarian issues sent eight Jordanian dinars a month to found on a Jordanian intelligence by Secretary-General U Thant. document seized by Israeli units arrived here Sunday night to be- 15 dinars a month. The dinar, pegged to the British pound ster- in the brief war against Jordan in gin talks with the Israeli Foreign ling, is valued at $2.80. June. The suspect was shadowed Ministry. He had come here from Israel Labor Ministry sources and seen to enter a coffee house conversations on the Arab ref- in Bethlehem where he met with ugee problem with Jordanian of- said that about 1,000 Arab work- ers in the occupied West Bank several other Fatah men. The place ficials. was surrounded and the men were Police and military surveillance area have been given relief work arrested. was increased early Monday morn- in road-building, afforestation and During interrogation, the sus- ing throughout the Old Jerusalem irrigation projects. The Bank of Is- pects admitted their plans for re- sections of the city, while heli- rael has advocated urgent meas- copters flew overhead watching ores to reactivate the economy of newal of terrorist activity and JERUSALEM — Israeli authori - i gave Israeli security officials the names of other Fatah men in refu- gee camps in Hebron. Bethlehem and Jericho in the occupied West Bank. A search of the camps dis- closed quantities of Communist Chinese submachine guns, ammu- nition. explosives. hand grenades and other military equipment. The detainees included Fata members who infiltrated into Israeli-held territory from Jor- dan. The El Fatah was an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organi- '67 BUICKS THE BEST FOR LESS AT MORRi e Bu i CK 342.7 '00 14500 W. 7 MILE AT LODGE X-WAY for possible trouble. the West Bank. Half of the credit resources of In the view of the Israel gov- ernment, Gussing's assignment the area are in Jordanian banks. Credit sponsored by the Israel gov- concerns only the situation faced by the Arab civilian population ' ernment for West Bank merchants and relief jobs are two of the prin- in the occupied areas, and to see cipal government moves to aid the whether Israel observes the Gen- eva Convention on this score and West Bank economy. Israel is also planning a major others of a similar nature. Israeli officials reported that change in agricultural production ; Arab residents in the West Bank in the occupied West Bank section sector appeared to have ignoredinvolving cutbacks in some crops the call from Jordanian Radio to and efforts to induce West Bank follow the example of the .Arabs Arab farmers to plant new kinds in the old section of Jerusalem. of crops to meet conditions creat- The Amman Radio incitement was ed by Israel's June victory. an ' directed particularly to merchants Israeli official said here. Ariel Amiad, director general in Hebron and Nablus. of the ministry of agriculture, The radio appeal followed a described here a long-range de- statement by Abdel Wahab Majali. velopment program to speed the Jordanian finance minister. settlement of Arab refugees in urging all Jordanian refugees Arab territory now under Is- from the West Bank to return to raeli control. The plans provide the area as quickly is possible to for more intensive cultivation serve as "a thorn in the flesh of and irrigation which could make , the aggressor." He made the ap- the Jordan River Valley between peal as chairman of the Jordanian Jericho and Beisan "a paradise." Higher Committee for Refugees at a meeting in Amman of members j He stressed that such projects were being planned for imple- of the Jordanian Parliament and mentation, if a political deci- West Bank Arab leaders now liv- sion about the future of the occu- ing in Jordan as refugees. pied sections made such a pro- The Jordanian government of- fered a three-months food supply gram necessary. The official said that the crop changes will include cutbacks in homes. tomatoes, watermelon and sweet gees who returned to their worth and Jordanian currency about $4.20 to all West Bank refu- The finance minister warned also melons because normal markets that the Jordanian government (Continued on Page 11) THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hugest 11, 1967 Jewish National Fund MONTH Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye, My People Tisha b'AV is the time when the Jews' thoughts turn to the destruc- tion of the Temple. Yet this is also the time to think of the reconstruc- tion and the upbuilding of the privilege of witnessing the beginning of the redemption of our ancestral national home and of the Holy City of Jerusalem. J.N.F. land supports the whole Israel economy — it grows Israel's food — on it stand Israel's religious, edu- cational, and welfare insti- tutions, end guards her frontiers. 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